Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that it is too elastic to be useful for political analysis. If a middle-class university professor and a young executive have to be lumped together in the same unit of analysis because they live in the same suburb the concept of class is not going to be any help in trying to understand the different social roles...
Some say that a society cannot be run on idealistic lines because, to speak symbolically, someone has to collect the garbage. I disagree. Why can't machines do the collecting? Why is it impossible that everybody might help? If actions were not dictated by your desire for wealth, garbage collecting would be like any other job. There is no theoretical barrier to a good society. One just has to try to achieve it; other animal societies have. The bees, for example, and they have evolved for at least a billion years longer than man so there must be something rational...
...Universities to build more housing for students, to encourage students to live outside Cambridge and to spend their money to help build low-income housing in the City
...scheduling coeducational panel discussions with titles like, "Educational Innovation: Is It Possible Within The Present University Structure?" and "Exploitation In Ghetto Real-Estate Transactions," we all knew why we were there, and they all knew why we were there and we didn't need any panel discussions to help us along...
Abolishing ROTC will not bring the war to an end, or the military establishment to its knees. But the arguments for abolishing ROTC are strong, and the Faculty should act on them. Above all, ending ROTC at Harvard will help to create the critical independent spirit which should be the only ideology of a university...